Xref: utzoo comp.sys.hp:8153 comp.sys.apollo:8493 comp.arch:21670 comp.benchmarks:476 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!kuling!irf From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide') Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.apollo,comp.arch,comp.benchmarks Subject: Snakebytes (long -- and poisonous?). Message-ID: <1998@kuling.UUCP> Date: 27 Mar 91 00:48:19 GMT Sender: news@kuling.UUCP Reply-To: irf@kuling.DoCS.UU.SE (Bo Thide') Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden Lines: 95 Now that the Snakes (HP9000/700 series HP-PA 1.1 RISC workstations) are let loose, the official HP info has become available. Some of this info follows. There are three models, the desktop (114mm*508mm*470mm) 720 (Cobra) and 730 (King Cobra) and the deskside (610mm*220mm*595mm) 750 (Coral). They come initially with HP-UX 8.01 to be upgraded to HP-UX 8.05 in June. Later OSF/1 will be available. Clock: 50 MHZ (720) or 66 MHz (730, 750) Cache: 128 kB instr/256 kB data (720, 730), 256 kB instr/256 kB data. Interfaces: SCSI-II, EISA, LAN, RS-232 (to 460.8 kbaud), HP-HIL, Centronics. HP-IB optional (via EISA!). Monitors: 72 Hz, 19" 1280x1024 8-bit grayscale (GRX) or 8+8 color planes (CRX). Software: X11R4, OSF/Motif1.2 (not 1.1!), VUE, NCS, NFS, 4.3BSD TCP/IP, ARPA. Languages: C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, ANSI C, Assembler. FORTRAN compiler with "+800" option for series 800 compatibility. Series 800 binaries run on series 700 machines. Performance (with HP-UX 8.05) and comparison with other workstations: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPEC Khorner- Linp2P x11- Dhry- mark int fp stones MIPS MFLOPS perf stone2.0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HP9000/730,750 G/CRX 72.2 51.0 91.0 143974 76 22.9 10460 114680 HP9000/720 G/CRX 55.5 39.0 70.2 119213 57 17.2 8244 87000 IBM 6000/550 54.3 34.5 73.5 n/a 56 23 n/a n/a IBM 6000/320 24.6 16.3 32.4 54661 29.5 8.5 1520 45250 Sun SPARCstation 2GX 21.0 20.2 21.5 27142 28.5 4.2 n/a 35590 DECstation 5000/200PXGT 18.5 19.0 18.5 26456 24.2 3.7 3256 38760 DECstation 3100 11.3 11.8 10.9 15285 14.9 1.6 1702 23470 Sun SPARCstation IPC 11.8 12.4 11.4 13329 15.7 1.7 n/a 22830 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linp2P = Linpack Double precision, 100*100 FORTRAN BLAS, rolled. x11perf = geometric mean of the x11perf1.2 component tests (excluding 1 and 500 pixel tests). Selected x11perf Tests: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 pixel 10*10 TR create & map Dots lines rects text subwins (50 kids) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HP9000/730,750 G/CRX 1630000 911000 278000 273000 6000 HP9000/720 G/CRX 1260000 874000 272000 245000 4500 DECstation 5000/200PXGT 370000 455000 256000 90900 1750 Sun SPARCstation 2GX 101100 147000 83500 49000 1050 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Graphics Performance: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2D floating 3D floating pt pt vectors/s vectors/s (peak) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HP9000/730,750 G/CRX 1120000 1150000 HP9000/720 G/CRX 1120000 1150000 DECstation 5000/200PXGT 300000 300000 Sun SPARCstation 2GX 450000 240000 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sequential Disk Access Rates: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read (kB/s) Write (kB/s) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HP9000/700, 1*210MByte disk 1120 1140 HP9000/700, 1*420MByte disk 1520 1510 HP9000/700, 2*210MByte disk 2070 1800 HP9000/700, 2*420MByte disk 2460 2140 Sun SPARCstation 2, 207MByte disk 744 794 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANSYS SP-3 results (smaller = better): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CPU seconds ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cray 2 27 HP9000/730,750 G/CRX 49 DEC VAX9000 65 HP9000/720 G/CRX 66 IBM 6000/540 68 DECstation 5000 145 IBM 6000/320 107 Sun SPARCstation 1+ 311 Sun SPARCstation 2 225 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- HP numbers were measured with series 800 compiler code. No series 700 specific optimizations used.